Wine Lyrics - Saul Williams

The new wine is dying on the vine 

how much must you age before you're ageless? 

align yourself with the divine 

allow your inner sage to burn your rage less 

'cause I find you're testaments of time 

there is no space for time within your mind 

if your looking for yourself, yourself you'll find 

through the crystal of your spirit you'll inherit the divine 

you are God, you best believe 

don't waste your time down on your knees 

it's everybody for themselves 

you have the fire and the cross 

don't save your soul it's sour loss 

collective soul, collective well 

The new wine is dying on the vine 

how much must you age before you're ageless? 

align yourself with the divine 

allow your inner sage to burn your rage less 

'cause I find you're testaments of time 

there is no space for time within your mind 

if your looking for yourself, yourself you'll find 

through the crystal of your spirit you'll inherit the divine 

you are God, you best believe 

don't waste your time down on your knees 

it's everybody for themselves 

you have the fire and the cross 

don't save your soul it's sour loss 

collective soul, collective well 

Chorus (x2): 

Now do you know how I feel tonight? 

Now can't you see I'm surreal tonight? 

See how I shine I'm a star, yeah 

Now do you know who you are, yeah? 

I'm that atonement son 

that's like a bible and gun 

pea-cocked and ready aimin' steady as a ray of the sun 

my ammunition, intuition, full eclipse of my lung 

son, you could never guess what planet I'm from 

my emcee name is my birth name, my first name 

alias is all of us, soul of us, the fall of us 

to surely come when we deny it 

loudest nigga gets quiet 

prison of pieces of riot 

sell your soul if you want to, but that don't mean I'mma buy it 

see I've been conscious of your nonsense 

they imprints have been quiet 

and I ain't gonna lie it 

be to hard to deny it 

I ain't from your block and never had to deal with your shit 

never had a glock never kept it real with no bit 

and when I saw a nigga like you, son I practically hit 

'cause you did what you did and I wasn't the kid 

don't give a fuck now, I be the first one to playa hate 

the eye of the needle set the record straight 

and I retire late, retire late, retaliate, retaliate 

and I be fishin' on that same star you be wishin' on 

make you move son, you know the mission's on 

so never question who I am, God knows 

and I know God personally 

in fact he lets me call him me 

in fact he lets me call him me 

never question who I am, God knows 

and I know God personally 

in fact she lets me call her me 

in fact she lets me call her me 

Chorus (x6) 

I can recite the grass on the hill and memorize the moon 

I know the cloudforms of love by heart 

and have brought tears to the eye of a storm 

and my memory banks vaults of forests and amazon river banks 

and i've screamed them into sunsets that echo in earthquakes 

shadows have been my spotlight as I monologue the night and dialogue with days 

soliloquies of wind and breeze applauded by sun rays 

we put language in zoos to observe caged thought 

and tossed peanuts and p-funk at intellect 

and motherfuckers think these are metaphors 

i speak what I see 

all words and worlds are metaphors of me 

my life was authored by the moon 

footprints written in soil 

the fountain pen of martian men 

novelling human toil 

and yes, the soil speaks highly of me 

but earth seeds root me poet-tree 

now, maybe i'm too serious 

too little here to matter 

though i'm riddled with the reason of the sun 

i stand up comets with the audience of lungs 

this body of laughter is it with me or at me? 

hue more or less though gender's mute 

and the punch line has this lifeline at it's root 

i'm a star this life's the suburbs, I commute 

Chorus (x2)